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... feel- ing , as to lose its primitive and manly character , and forget its acquaintance with sense and truth . What then is meant by the faith of the heart ? By the faith of the heart , is to be understood , in the first place , a faith ...
... feel- ing , as to lose its primitive and manly character , and forget its acquaintance with sense and truth . What then is meant by the faith of the heart ? By the faith of the heart , is to be understood , in the first place , a faith ...
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... Feeling weeps ; Religion never speaks of duty to a shuddering bosom ; and Christianity disclaims the power which Nature would recoil to exercise . Let mystics , and bigots , and selfish men , dream , and rave , and calculate as they ...
... Feeling weeps ; Religion never speaks of duty to a shuddering bosom ; and Christianity disclaims the power which Nature would recoil to exercise . Let mystics , and bigots , and selfish men , dream , and rave , and calculate as they ...
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... feel themselves at home . Let any one study to make this FAITH OF THE HEART his own , and he may be sure that it ... feels the emptiness of petty distinctions , and the worthlessness of mere names ; and from amidst all the con- fusion of ...
... feel themselves at home . Let any one study to make this FAITH OF THE HEART his own , and he may be sure that it ... feels the emptiness of petty distinctions , and the worthlessness of mere names ; and from amidst all the con- fusion of ...
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... feeling of calm tranquillity entered into my heart , the cool atmosphere refreshed me , and as a gentle breeze fanned my cheek and forehead , I thought that I had never experienced so much pleasure . The tumult of my blood was gone ...
... feeling of calm tranquillity entered into my heart , the cool atmosphere refreshed me , and as a gentle breeze fanned my cheek and forehead , I thought that I had never experienced so much pleasure . The tumult of my blood was gone ...
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... little did I see or feel to warrant the apprehension sometimes expressed , that -- foreign travel would weaken our patriotic attachments . One 2 B THE BLESSING OF FREEDOM . 17 come among us, and look with childish wonder upon ...
... little did I see or feel to warrant the apprehension sometimes expressed , that -- foreign travel would weaken our patriotic attachments . One 2 B THE BLESSING OF FREEDOM . 17 come among us, and look with childish wonder upon ...
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Page 275 - I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Page 237 - The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
Page 101 - Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Page 364 - Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father : for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Page 23 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Page 334 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it. Neither yet now are ye able.
Page 101 - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Page 83 - Truly, the din of many-voiced Life, which, in this solitude, with the mind's organ, I could hear, was no longer a maddening discord, but a melting one; like inarticulate cries, and sobbings of a dumb creature, which in the ear of Heaven are prayers. The poor Earth, with her poor joys, was now my needy Mother, not my cruel Stepdame ; Man, with his so mad Wants and so mean...
Page 253 - Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law ? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Page 415 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field : which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.